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Press Releases tagged with realism

The McNay Presents REALITY CHECK

Released: February 11, 2013

Using technology to observe and think creatively about works of art, the McNay Art Museum presents Reality Check, an iPad app that uses augmented reality to experience works of art in multi-sensory ways. "Reality Check encourages engagement in the museum on a personal level. Visitors cast votes, mix soundtracks, and hear from some of the artists, "says Kate Carey, Director of Education. "Because the augmented reality software recognizes works of art as specific markers, you have to be in the museum to play. It's like a tech savvy search-and-find meets a choose-your-own-adventure story. ...

Jared French, State Park, 1946. Egg tempera on composition board. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Donnelley Erdman 65.78.

The McNay presents REAL/SURREAL

Released: February 5, 2013

Drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney's collection, Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art focuses on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in 20th-century art: realism and Surrealism. Real/Surreal features paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints that elucidate how artists-depending on intention and influence-developed degrees of reality in which imagination held more or less sway. Among the notable artists included in the exhibition are Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, Edward Hopper, Man Ray, Ben Sha...

BORIS LURIE EXHIBITION EXTENDED

Released: December 13, 2012

Due to unprecedented demand the David David Gallery has extended the Boris Lurie "No Art" Show to January 4th, 2013. This is an ideal opportunity to view an important survey of Lurie's work which is rarely seen outside of Museum Exhibitions. Nearly one-half of the fifty works in the Exhibition are available for purchase. We hope you will take advantage of the new timeline and enjoy the powerful social messages conveyed through this extraordinary man's vision. He had the courage and determination not to sell out to commercialism but rather make a statement of relevance with referen...

Garden of Love: American Still Life Painting, 1880-1930

Released: May 13, 2012

Garden of Love: American Still Life Painting, 1880-1930 is now on view at Catherine Dail Fine Art through the end of May. This sumptuous Spring exhibition of American still life and garden painting was curated with inspiration from the poetry of William Blake and the new music of Martha Redbone. Garden of Love is the title of one of Blake's Songs of Experience - in which he wrote, illustrated and included the stanza: "I went to the Garden of Love/And saw what I never had seen/A Chapel was built in the midst/Where I used to play on the green." Like many of the 19th-century Ameri...

"The Model Is Posing" @studio21south, 10.9-11.21

Released: September 25, 2010

The tradition of artists working with life models is alive and well. As evidence, art gallery studio21south presents “The Model is Posing”, featuring Sam Goodsell, Eric March, Joel Rudnick, Katy Schneider (Smith College), Jerry Weiss (Old Lyme), Thor Wickstrom, and other artists actively engaged in this timeless practice. “The Model is Posing” is the phrase commonly used to bring a group back to attention when a model recommences work after a break, or to shoo away anyone attempting to intrude upon the studio during a pose. Similarly, the intent of this exhibit is to demonstrate tha...